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SalaryWoolworths Group is a food and everyday needs retailer united by the shared purpose of creating better experiences together for a better tomorrow. With more than 1,400stores across its Woolworths Supermarkets, Countdown Supermarkets (New Zealand) and BIG W brands, and fast-growing eCommerce businesses, Woolworths Group isAustralia and New Zealand's largest retailer. A top 10 company on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Woolworths Group employs more than 180,000 team membersand serves more than 20 million customers a week.
Merchandise Manager | Permanent
Ready for your next challenge? Are you someone who lives the values and strives to embed our ways of working.
About the Role
We currently have an opportunity for a Merchandise Manager to join our Supermarkets Buying team. As we continue to increase our customer focus we will continueto place a greater emphasis on strategic thinking, innovation and delivery of plans as well as the ongoing development of a high performing best in class buyingteam.
As Merchandise Manager you will be responsible for developing and executing the merchandise strategy for one of our largest departments in consultation withMarketing, Digital, Operations, Finance & People teams. You will be required to lead, coach and develop your team to deliver fi nancial and non fi nancial objectives.
Have ownership and accountability over multi-million dollar departments
Embed customer insights into the commercial operation
Ensure Insights are turned into actions across the department
Develop the department commercial plan (cogs, shrink, pricing & promotions, own brand)
Develop and coach the next generation of leaders
Manage a large team including Category Managers, Assistant Category Managers and Category assistants
Drive industry innovation & change
Achieve department P & L and substantial cost-savings for the business
Achieve market share objectives against competitors
Drive and own the long term direction of the department as well as delivering short term goals on 1000s of products
About You
Whether we're learning new things, seizing the initiative, or winning together our customers are at the heart of everything we do. If you're the sort of individual whotakes accountability and strives to always do the right thing for each other, our communities, our customers, and our business then we ought to connect.
To succeed in this role you will have:
Exceptional leadership skills and experience in developing high performing teams
A successful track record of delivering commercial retail outcomes
Ability to think strategically and develop winning category plans that deliver sustainable and long term category growth
Experience in building long term retail plans in order to balance profi t and revenue
Proven success in negotiating and infl uencing at all levels and managing multiple stakeholders
Experience in retail buying in a similar high volume category
A proven track record to manage or develop product/category with sound business acumen
Experience in developing a strategy that is aligned to the overarching divisional strategy
Grow with the Group
Woolworths Group has announced it will be requiring Australian team members to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (subject to medical and religiousexemptions).
As an inclusive, team-first company, our people are at the core of everything we do.
We care deeply about creating a workplace where our team members feel valued, respected and empowered. We are committed to providing equal opportunityregardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or life stage. We are proud to be recognised as a Gold Tier Employer in the Australian WorkplaceEquality Index for LGBTQ+ inclusion and as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.
As our Group continues to evolve, innovate and support our communities, we encourage our team members to do the same with their own careers, by providingongoing opportunities to grow and make a real diff erence.
We value flexibility, and encourage our team members to work in ways that meet their work/life commitments and support their wellbeing.
